Slate News
Hosted by David Plotz and Dahlia Lithwick and Elizabeth Spiers and Emily Bazelon and Emily Peck and Felix Salmon and John Dickerson · Slate Podcasts
4.5from 5,648 ratings
- 7,394
- Episodes
- 1,483
- Transcribed
- 5,648
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2006
- First episode
About Slate News
After the Trump administration launched a massive Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operation in Minnesota, protesters gathered to defend immigrant neighbors. Renee Nicole Good, a mother of a six year old, showed up with her wife and dog to film altercations between officers and community members. What happened next changed everything. Guest: Jon Collins, senior reporter on the Minnesota Public Radio News race, class and communities team. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus (http://slate.com/whatnextplus) to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Slate Podcasts
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Mar 2006
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
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What Next - The Fascist Threat Brewing in…Kansas?
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So, you know, that's what really struck me about the passage of that law. And at the time it was reported, and then... six months later, people had sort of forgotten about it. But I have a book that's coming out with an academic press. And in the book, I make a passing reference to the denationalization of trans people. And denationalization is also a concept from Hannah Arendt. She wrote about how the destruction of European Jewry actually began with the denationalization of German Jews. First, they were forced out of public spaces. They were forced out of certain businesses. They couldn't own bicycles. […]
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David Plotz and Dahlia Lithwick and Elizabeth Spiers and Emily Bazelon and Emily Peck and Felix Salmon and John Dickerson host the show. Published by Slate Podcasts.
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